USDataCenters will use SelectAccess to provide role-based access to the applications and resources it hosts for customers. Role-based access allows the customer to determine which resources and applications an end user has the right to use, based on the individual’s job function within the company or business relationship with the company. The service can be used with any outsourced application including online publishing, financial and healthcare applications, intranets and extranets, providing a single point of contact for adding new users.
Baltimore SelectAccess is a tremendous competitive advantage for us, said Ron Rainville, chief operations officer, USDataCenters. By leveraging this solution early, we can differentiate our business by offering something no other managed service provider has – a user-friendly means for highly secure application access. SelectAccess gives us a unique privilege management offering.
USDataCenters’ new authorization management service lets customers tailor access to their managed applications based on corporate security guidelines. This delegation of privilege is a significant advantage of USDataCenters’ secure business strategy because it allows customers’ online relationships to reflect the business and security guidelines they have created in the offline world.
Baltimore SelectAccess provides customers with a straightforward, drag-and-drop approach to creating security policies, the set of rules the software uses for determining whether end users are authorized to access a specific resource and the circumstances under which they are allowed that privilege. In addition, it provides a unique automated discovery feature for populating the resource database, vastly reducing administration time.
With the distinctive capability to delegate administration of users and policy to multiple levels, SelectAccess empowers USDataCenters to securely transfer these administration responsibilities to their customers thus limiting their own liability for authorization management. USDataCenters removes the responsibility and time commitment of maintaining the authorization system from customers, allowing them to remain focused on their core business. USDataCenters’ customers control the implementation of their security policy and can even further sub-delegate administration within their organization.
SelectAccess provides exceptional ease of use, making this a clear win-win offering for both USDataCenters and our customers, said Neil Buckley, director of security and networking for USDataCenters. We see managed access and authorization as the first, most obvious step for our customers that need to control user access to sensitive information and resources. We also see it as a springboard for moving customers to the next level of managed security services.
